Sept. 2
Romans 14
Rom 14:1 Now accept one
who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
Rom 14:2 One man has
faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Rom 14:3 Don't let him
who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat
judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Rom 14:4 Who are you
who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes,
he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
Rom 14:5 One man
esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike.
Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
Rom 14:6 He who
observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not
observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats,
eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the
Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
Rom 14:7 For none of us
lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Rom 14:8 For if we
live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If
therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom 14:9 For to this
end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both
the dead and the living.
Rom 14:10 But you, why
do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your
brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Rom 14:11 For it is
written, " 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will
bow. Every tongue will confess to God.' "
Rom 14:12 So then each
one of us will give account of himself to God.
Rom 14:13 Therefore
let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no
man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for
falling.
Rom 14:14 I know, and
am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself;
except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is
unclean.
Rom 14:15 Yet if
because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love.
Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:16 Then don't
let your good be slandered,
Rom 14:17 for the
Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace,
and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 14:18 For he who
serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by
men.
Rom 14:19 So then, let
us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we
may build one another up.
Rom 14:20 Don't
overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean,
however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by
eating.
Rom 14:21 It is good to
not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother
stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Rom 14:22 Do you have
faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge
himself in that which he approves.
Rom 14:23 But he who
doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and
whatever is not of faith is sin.